Some readers will have noticed the book that I still have in my “Currently Reading” spot to the right here: Anders Gerdmar’s Roots of Theological Anti-semitism (Brill, 2009), which I’ve posted some notes on already. Well, just tonight I happily received a message from Anders Gerdmar himself, informing me (and thereby you, dear reader) ofContinue reading “A great new blog”
Monthly Archives: September 2009
These vespers of another year
The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields Are hung, as if with golden shields, Bright trophies of the sun! Like a fair sister of the sky, Unruffled doth the blue lake lie, The mountains looking on. And, sooth to say, yon vocal grove, Albeit uninspired by love, By love untaught to ring, May well afford toContinue reading “These vespers of another year”
Bibles and Authorities
Recently on a particular academic mailing list, someone entirely in earnest put forth the question, “Which is the Christian Old Testament—the Septuagint or the Masoretic Text?” This person rightly recognized the use of various versions by the writers of the New Testament, a point to which we will return. However, his rather simple question bringsContinue reading “Bibles and Authorities”
On Nebuchadnezzar
For first, in the vision of the statue, he was compared to gold, which is better than everything that is administered in the world. In the vision of the beasts he was compared to a lion which is superior in its might to all other beasts. He was compared again to an eagle which isContinue reading “On Nebuchadnezzar”
My Little Green Shakespeare
I have this great little volume of Shakespeare that I got for six bucks years ago, volume 12 of a set of The Works of Shakespeare, edited by Israel Gollancz, published in London by J. M. Dent & Co. in 1900. This volume includes Annals of the Life of Shakespeare, the King’s License to ShakespeareContinue reading “My Little Green Shakespeare”
Yea, verily, Magister Duffy doth rock
There’s a new one out from Eamon Duffy: Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (Yale, 2009). This be ye blurbe: The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burningContinue reading “Yea, verily, Magister Duffy doth rock”